May 2013
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Lois Lane Blog Carnival
Just a reminder that this week we’ll be rounding up all the submissions to the Lois Lane blog carnival. Because we got off to a late start, you still have time to put up your post and send me the link.
As always, your post can be on Tumblr, Facebook, Wordpress, Livejournal, or any other blogging/media platform, as long as it’s public. Submissions can be essays, linkspams, comics,...
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Lois Appreciation Begins!
Thanks to a series of strange and unfortunate events (some involving me weeping on the floor of a server room–the less said, the better), our celebration is getting off to a bit of a late start. But don’t worry, we’ve got a week of awesome Lois Lane posts queued up, and a blog carnival to share with you.
When I was putting together this week’s guest posts, I asked my aunt, a Lois & Clark...
April 2013
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Call for submissions: The history of Lois Lane →
thewherefores:
Looking for a few good guest posts.
As part of 75 Years of Lois Lane (Lois 75, for convenience), we’re putting together a series of posts on the history of Lois Lane, but there’s so much history that we can’t cover it all! We’re calling out to all you Lois experts, to make sure Lois is celebrated as she deserves to be: thoroughly, provocatively… and only after fact checking.
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Blog Carnival: 75 Years of Lois Lane →
Celebrating 75 Years of Lois Lane (in May)
Action Comics #1 was released in June of 1938. It featured the debut of not only Clark Kent and Superman, but plucky, independent reporter Lois Lane. Love interest, competitor, sometime thorn in Clark’s side, and full time journalistic superhero, Lois has been an integral part of Action Comics, Superman, and the superhero mythos ever since.
In honour of...
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What is geek culture? What we talk about, when we... →
“Meanwhile, what’s going on with geek culture? It’s hard to tell if mass culture is getting geekier, geek culture is getting more mainstream, or both, but it’s increasingly difficult to tell the difference between being a Star Wars fan, and not being one. The rules and rituals of being a geek are both more widely known, and less religiously practiced by fans as a whole. But what I’m...
March 2013
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Our first podcast! Our SECOND interview with... →
Here at Women Write About Comics we’re unfailingly organised – mostly. Each moving through local comic connections Megan B and Claire both arranged interviews with Comic Book Slumber Party’s Hannah Chapman… and didn’t realise there was crossover until each were complete! Luckily we’re a gestalt of one thousand varied interests, and both interviews took different tacks, leaving WWAC with the...
“As much as I hated it at the beginning that I was playing a really controversial...”
– - Sophie Turner once again understanding her character better than anyone. (via fyeahsophieturner)
OH MY GOODNESS I WANT TO GIVE SOHPIE TURNER A HUG FOR UNDERSTANDING HER CHARACTER SO WELL.
For reals though I am so delighted to read this because it’s spot on and perfect and I’m glad she loves her...
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“I get why Connor Hawke is gone. I don’t LIKE it, but I get why they got rid of...”
– Ragnell in our recent DC Roundtable.
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Organize: Making space for women in comics. →
Megan Byrd interviewed Hannah Chapman of Comic Book Slumber Party.
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“Superior Spider-Man has done a huge disservice to MJ’s character. I can accept...”
– Skalja in
Part two of our Marvel roundtable: Mary Jane, Miles, and the diversity dance in comics.
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DC Women Kicking Ass: Grant Morrison Talks About... →
therearecertainshadesoflimelight:
thewherefores:
dcwomenkickingass:
Grant Morrison gives some updates on his long awaited take on Wonder Woman over ‘Rama. (He also talks about the death of Damian).
Morrison’s had Wonder Woman on his plate since 2009 since the project was taken from Greg Rucka. Late last year he was reportedly well into it enough that the…
Just what we need—another...
“There’s people who draw women like a hungry man drawing food.”
– Brandon Graham, via Liz Greenfield (via deantrippe)
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“Someone reading one of my comics can easily see how I’ve made these things, ...”
– Claire interviewed Phillipa Rice, creator of My Cardboard Life and Soppy.
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State of Marvel Roundtable–Part One →
Megan hosted a roundtable discussion on Marvel romance, mental health, and motherhood, with Ronch, Skalja, Indigo and Corrina Lawson.
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“It’s funny how people still make “Jean never stays dead!” jokes when in real...”
– Ronch, in our Marvel Roundtable (part one).
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Just a reminder
coolchicksfromhistory:
I set a women’s history challenge at the beginning of the month which you can still participate in. Details here.
And you can see all the posts people made here.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Obviously we need some posts about female artists.
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Digital Baubles: She Wrote It BUT... She Had An... →
kellysue:
Dude means well. Dude’s tweeting to Marvel in favor of more diversity. Dude states (inaccurately) that Marvel has two women writers — M. Liu and K. DeConnick, the latter being ‘a lady with an inside connection.’
Just like that—fwoosh. Didn’t work my way in. Got in because of who I’m fucking. I mean, my wording is crass, but is that not how that parses?
She wrote it BUT… she...
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“When a beautiful actress is cast in a movie, executives rack their brains to...”
– Mindy Kaling on the women who only exist in romantic comedies | Flick Chicks (via rufustfirefly)
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February 2013
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January 2013
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News & Things: The science of Batman →
A lot of Batman news this week, huh?
But possibly my favourite (and not Batman) thing, is gtz’s timeline of the many, many isolated incidents of sexism in gaming in 2012: Just A Few Isolated Incidents. It’s spectacular.
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Bloglectric Circus: topic nominations open
New year, new carnival, new topics. Time, I think, for another round of the Women Write About Comics blog carnival.
What’s a blog carnival, you ask? It’s a no-pressure, distributed conversation amongst your fellow bloggers, around a single topic. Say we decide to talk about comedic characters in comics. Then, on a particular date, the WWAC crew and whoever else chooses to participate, puts up a...
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Shut Up and Take My Money: Earthward by Brian Q...
claysad:
Thanks to Women Write about Comics’s new News and Things feature (great idea, btw!) I recently found out about Brian Q Miller’s new Kickstarter project, Earthward (no Kickstarter link—doesn’t launch til Friday). I read CBR’s interview with Miller about the project and have a few things to say about the book, the interview, the whole shebang. You could forge on ahead, but to get the full...
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News & Things →
Aaron Swartz, the science of comment trolls, and the fundamentals of storytelling.
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“I understand that you wrote this book, in part, for your daughter. What did you...”
– Liz interviewed Jeremy Whitely, creator of the awesome kid’s comic Princeless.
Check it out here.
(via womenwriteaboutcomics)
This is why - and I hope I’m not reading this wrong - having more male POC characters is a feminist issue. It’s much easier (not easy, but easiER) to find representation...
